4:48 am in artists, community supported architecture, Culture & Celebrity, photography, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo: ucrsweeneyartgallery
Photography and environmentalism have a long and respected link; think
Ed Burtynsky's photos of the BP oil spill and the
Prix Pictet winners.
Now we have the world's biggest photograph, which is in the
Guinness World Records. It is a panoramic view of an old Marine Corps Air Station, which ...
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8:44 am in architecture, Design & Architecture, photography, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo credit: Seneca Ray Stoddard courtesy of Gladys Montgomery
In her new book
An Elegant Wilderness, Gladys Montgomery collects photographs and stories from one of the premier vacation destinations of the Gilded Age: The Adirondacks.
For the era's rich, escaping the stresses of urban life was essential and the great camps of this mountain range—combining a natural setting and
incredible opulence—became a favored destination. Yet the homes built in...
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8:00 am in arts, barcelona, Culture & Celebrity, gardening, photography, spain by TreeHugger
Images: Courtesy of The Plant Journal.
A story on New Yorker's stubbornness to grow in the least traditional spaces, a special report on how to take care of a
Staghorn Fern, and a tale of a trip to a mysterious nursery in Buenos Aires are some of the articles that you'll find at
The Plant Journal: a new magazine coming from Barcelona that hopes to explore the bonds of creative people with plants.
One of its founding editors, Cristina Merino, spoke with TreeHugger about the endeavor an...
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8:00 am in agriculture, animals, farming, Food & Health, photography, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo credit: Laura Childs/Skyhorse Publishing
Most people that think about keeping goats are excited about the prospect of the milk, cheese, and
even meat that the animals can provide. To think only about these things, however, is to miss many of the benefits of goat husbandry.
In
The Joy of Keeping Goats, Laura Childs uncovers many of these little-known pleasures and offers a complete introduction to the challenge of rearing goats for the small-scale farmer.
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3:04 pm in photography, pollution, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Screenshot from Photopic Sky Survey. Image: Nick Risinger.
It's easy for urban dwellers to forget about the tens of millions of stars filling the night sky. With so few stars visible in the world's cities due to
light pollution, we often find ourselves shocked on
camping or overnight boating trips to see constellations and even galaxies in the black reaches overhead. Photographer ...
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